A couple of loads today just to make sure the basement is full once the snow gets too deep to get around the house to the wood door. I'll keep doing this every couple of weeks to keep it full.
Good deal. Gives the new stuff you bring in some time to dry a bit on the outside, light & burn a tad better
I set aside 2 or 3 days worth of burning beside the furnace before I brought this stuff in, so it will be warm when I get into it.
It's funny in a way, but as I get older I find myself planning more and more ahead trying to stay on top of any surprises that might come. Like today: all the leaves are off the trees so I went up on the roof and swept all the leaves off it and cleaned out all the gutters before the snow comes. Stored the bbq out in the steel building for the winter. I find myself getting really impatient if something doesn't get done as it should before the snow flies. Maybe this is normal or maybe I'm getting more crotchety, I really don't know but I can obviously see it happening to myself.
It's a good old tractor, had it about 25 years now. It's plowed about ten of my acres and cut, raked and square baled hay. I use it to snowblow the driveway, bring my wood in and load round bales in the summer onto the hay wagon. The biggest trouble it presented me was splitting it in half to change the clutch but I managed to get that done outside in one weekend all by myself. Well worth the $8500 CDN I paid for it from the dealer used.
You must not get winter like we do. Last year we got snow on Nov. 7th and we never saw the ground again until late April of this year. BBQing is a summer sport. I can give it up for a few months.
We can get up to 100 inches of snow. We clear the deck where our wood rack is. So it's not a big deal to clear the gas grill for use.
At 51 me too, but ive been with Ms. buZZsaw for nearly 13 years! Nice looking stacks and sheds What is an average snowfall (per storm) for you folks up there Chris F ?
It varies from year to year Brad but we usually don't get really big dumps at one time. I got stuck one morning last year when we got over a foot of snow overnight and had to take my wifes 4x4 in to work. It's the length of time I have to deal with the snow, that's how I measure whether it's been a good or bad winter. I don't mind the cold so much, I just stay indoors but the snow has to be blown/shovelled and that means hated work is being thrust upon me. I really resent that. Other than those four or five months this is really a beautiful place to live and raise the kids but not having to deal with winter in the first place would be so much more beneficial, both mentally and economically.
Agreed, can't say that I like to deal with the snow, slush and ice. Come to think of it, I can live without the sub-artic temps too... ...and the summer heat while I'm at it. Yea, just give me a nice range from say oh 30f to 70f and I would be happier.
There is a place like that called "San Diego" but the collateral damage of moving there isn't worth it unless weather is the only thing that matters!
